The launch of a new portrait company with a difference could solve the age old problem of buying that special someone a personal present they will treasure for ever. The Alternative Portrait Company is the creative brainchild of local Leicestershire artist Sarah Boddy.

The first major exhibition of its kind, Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries celebrates the remarkable collaboration of scientists, conservators and art historians at the National Gallery.

A 3D sculpture of your unborn child, a made-to-measure suit of armour and a sculpture made entirely out of butter! These are just a few items that are availabe in an online directory featuring the work of over 300 talented artists from Leicestershire.

A group of scientists from Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage, a leading association of scientists and art historians, is seeking permission to open the tomb in which Leonardo da Vinci is believed to lie at Amboise castle, in the Loire valley, in a bid to reconstruct his face and disco

Leicester Arts and Museums Service are delighted to announce an outstanding new gift of artworks. In early 2009 the Service was approached with the offer of a gift of early 20th century paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture.

Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery is pleased to announce ‘British Game Birds’, a new exhibition of oil paintings by Wildlife & Sporting Artist Jonathan Pointer. In his new exhibition Pointer depicts a wide range of British game birds including grouse, woodcock and pheasant.

The British countryside has become a bore because ‘there is nothing to see or do’, says 53 per cent of the nation's adults.A leisu...

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